Hiring / training
04-05-2023, 06:44 AM
#3811
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2016
Posts: 541
Usually straight open time trips. Adding trips on your reserve day off at F9, is a nice benefit but when you start with only 12 days off it doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room. I’m a junior line holder, so the flying I’m doing is red eye type flying. I live in base and I’ve done plenty of reserve. I would still never add flying on a hard day off. I value my time differently. Reserve is a crap shoot, one week they might not use you. The next they use you for five days straight. I occasionally broke guarantee on reserve, but couldn’t imagine doing some useless red eye trip after being jerked around for five days. To each his own I guess.
04-05-2023, 07:23 AM
#3812
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Joined APC: Jun 2021
Position: Joystick Operator
Posts: 778
Originally Posted by SFA320
Usually straight open time trips. Adding trips on your reserve day off at F9, is a nice benefit but when you start with only 12 days off it doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room. I’m a junior line holder, so the flying I’m doing is red eye type flying. I live in base and I’ve done plenty of reserve. I would still never add flying on a hard day off. I value my time differently. Reserve is a crap shoot, one week they might not use you. The next they use you for five days straight. I occasionally broke guarantee on reserve, but couldn’t imagine doing some useless red eye trip after being jerked around for five days. To each his own I guess.
imo, I have been used an average of about 4-5 days a month the last 6 months, its been nice.
04-05-2023, 09:31 AM
#3813
I Pass the Butter
Joined APC: May 2017
Posts: 555
Originally Posted by SFA320
Usually straight open time trips. Adding trips on your reserve day off at F9, is a nice benefit but when you start with only 12 days off it doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room. I’m a junior line holder, so the flying I’m doing is red eye type flying. I live in base and I’ve done plenty of reserve. I would still never add flying on a hard day off. I value my time differently. Reserve is a crap shoot, one week they might not use you. The next they use you for five days straight. I occasionally broke guarantee on reserve, but couldn’t imagine doing some useless red eye trip after being jerked around for five days. To each his own I guess.
Originally Posted by spooldup
Yeah I wish we had more than 12 days off... I swear every OT trip or premium trip is on a day im sitting reserve.
imo, I have been used an average of about 4-5 days a month the last 6 months, its been nice.
imo, I have been used an average of about 4-5 days a month the last 6 months, its been nice.
04-05-2023, 04:37 PM
#3818
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
Posts: 144
Originally Posted by Stayontarget
I second this question. You’re gonna have to elaborate on that a bit broccoli.
04-05-2023, 05:04 PM
#3819
Almost there
Joined APC: Apr 2021
Posts: 1,090
Originally Posted by fivebyfive
A professional pilot asking another to elaborate about that on a public forum. If he has to tell you, it isn’t worth saying. For the love of god, pilot culture is a thing of the past.
04-05-2023, 05:28 PM
#3820
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
Posts: 144
Originally Posted by Stayontarget
Somebody asks a question for an explanation of something or some reason they may not know on an anonymous forum and you toss them under the bus. What was that about pilot culture being a thing of the past?
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